An urgent request from the SPÖ to abolish the pension allocation in the National Council resulted in a surprising moment on Wednesday. In response, Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) made people sit up and take note of the desire for a coalition after the next National Council elections. And the current coalition partner ÖVP does not appear in it.
How did Rauch’s explosive statement come about? First of all, SPÖ social spokesman Josef Muchitsch complained that the federal government only suspended the allocation for two years and asked what would happen then.
SPÖ government “at best with NEOS and Greens”
The reaction of Minister Rauch of Social Affairs was surprising. Then it was elected and he assumes that there will be a government with the SPÖ “ideally together with NEOS and the Greens”.
Thick air within the coalition
In any case, the statement is a clear distance from the current coalition partner ÖVP. The failure of the rent brake on Wednesday in any case caused bad breath within the turquoise-green coalition in the National Council.
Green mandatarin Nina Tomaselli sharply criticized the ÖVP, accusing it of a policy for a “small privileged group, a policy for the few and not for the many”. The housing aids that were finally decided on are only the ‘second best solution’ for them. The ÖVP refuted their statements.
Muchitsch: “Pure arbitrariness”
In the motivation for the SPÖ application, Muchitsch was annoyed by the “pure arbitrariness” of the government. Sometimes the aliquot applies, sometimes it doesn’t. This arrangement is all the more “nonsense” in times of record inflation.
Women are particularly hard hit, as the deadline for raising the retirement age automatically falls in the second half of the year.
What does scaling entail?
Explanation: The pension distribution means that the adjustment in the first year after retirement depends on the month in which you retire. It is getting less and less and those who retire in November or December will receive nothing at all. For Muchitsch, the rule is anti-social, irrelevant and discriminatory against women.
Smoke: 200,000 retirees benefit
Rauch recalled that the SPÖ was present with their votes in 2011 when the waiting period was introduced, with the first increase not being received until the second year after retirement. He rejects such a regulation as it applied before the introduction of the partial payment. 200,000 retirees would benefit from today’s decision. In any case, the SPÖ acknowledged a “partial success”, but it was due to their pressure.
Source: Krone
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